Jeff Denning
@jeffdenning.com
Economist of Education UTexas, LBJ School, College of Education www.jeffdenning.com
Student loans can help students pay for college, but their effects depend on how and why students borrow. In a new chapter, Jeffrey T. Denning examines student loans, borrowing, student debt, college prices, and income-driven repayment. Learn more: livehandbook.org/higher-educa...
Popular discourse attributes falling college enrollments to the rising cost of four-year college. That story is wrong in multiple ways, as @mattbarnum.bsky.social points out in his latest roundup of the evidence (citing a new working paper of ours): www.chalkbeat.org/2025/11/11/i...
Is college enrollment plummeting?
Reports of the death of the bachelor’s degree have been greatly exaggerated.
chalkbeat.org
Don't forget that the deadline for SOLE is coming up. The meeting will be in Denver on May 1-2 this year. I am a big fan of SOLE and will be on the program committee reviewing higher education papers, so *definitely* submit if you have papers in higher education. Link below
If you know of a student who is looking for a education post doc (now, odd timing I know), I may have an opportunity for them. They would be working Texas admin data so experience with that would be a big plus.
Nothing makes me feel more like a professor than checking out a dusty old library book for research. Economics rarely looks like this—but it’s exactly what I thought professors did when I was a kid
One of the best feelings in research is coming up with a great title. I may have come up with my favorite yet, stay tuned
Just published in @jpube.bsky.social: "The graduation part II: Graduate program graduation rates" By @jeffdenning.com & @lesleyturner.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #econsky #publiceconomics
IES REBORN? On today's Education Gadfly Show podcast, Fordham's Amber Northern (of "Amber's Research Minute" fame) announces that she's joining the Trump Administration for six months to help develop a plan for a new IES. Listen now (starts around 24:30): fordhaminstitute.org/national/res...
Happy surprise to see this discussion of our paper in Jessica Hoel's substack (which is good generally!) liberalartsledger.substack.com/p/day-14-gra...
Day 14: Grades, graduation rates, and actual learning
A series following my new class: The Economics of Higher Education
liberalartsledger.substack.com
We're thrilled to announce three outstanding researchers are joining the Upjohn Institute: Chloe Gibbs @chloergibbs.bsky.social and Monique Davis @monique-e-davis.bsky.social in August and Ethan Jenkins June 2. Welcome! #laboreconomics #econsky
Next year I'll be joining the LBJ School of Public Affairs and College of Education at the University of Texas at Austin. It's a dream come true to be back at UT. I want to thank @ndecon.bsky.social for the last two years--it has been a great place for me and my family.
1. LLM-generated code tries to run code from online software packages. Which is normal but 2. The packages don’t exist. Which would normally cause an error but 3. Nefarious people have made malware under the package names that LLMs make up most often. So 4. Now the LLM code points to malware.
David D. Levine@daviddlevine.com · last yr.LLMs hallucinating nonexistent software packages with plausible names leads to a new malware vulnerability: "slopsquatting."
Mississippi State Univ. is hiring a tenure-track Econ Assistant Prof w/ August start! Open field; pref. for applied micro & teaching PhD Micro I & II (Micro II this fall). Apply: MSU site & www.aeaweb.org/joe/listing.php?JOE_ID=2025-01_111475768 Please repost—it's an off-cycle search. Thanks!
At the district spell bowl, a night for the nerds. Let's get ready to rumble!
Thanks to @chloergibbs.bsky.social and @jeffdenning.com and others for a great visit to Notre Dame (and great feedback on our paper studying the past 15 years of declines in community college enrollment). Among many highlights of the visit was the branded waffle I just made myself for breakfast.
Happy to contribute this chapter on student loans in the United States to the @aefpweb.bsky.social live handbook. I try to summarize what we have learned in student loan research recently. livehandbook.org/higher-educa...
Student Loans
This report analyzes the effects of student loans on education, jobs, & finances. Key findings include loan access, college costs, & repayment options.
livehandbook.org
I was just informed that the Department of Education has taken down all its Civil Rights data. If you need it, alternative sites are now hosting it for the public. See links in this thread. ocrdata.ed.gov/notfound
Civil Rights Data | U.S. Department of Education
Understand trends in student opportunity, security, and diversity.
ocrdata.ed.gov
Anyone have cites for the effects of graduate school tuition on enrollment? I can't think of any offhand but could use one. Thanks!
How are parents affected by their kid going to college? How are they affected when their kid gets a scholarship or grant? New working paper with @palaashbhargava.bsky.social @econsandy.bsky.social @odedgurantz.bsky.social and Rob Fairlie www.nber.org/papers/w33497
In a moment of weakness this morning I looked up flights to Florida *leaving today* Pretty ready for mornings that start with temperatures in the single digits to be over for the year
Back by popular demand! We just released another call for proposals using RCTs and quasi-experiments. 3-page LOIs are due March 14. Details here: bit.ly/4ambjv3 (1/2)
Arnold Ventures | Two New Ways to Learn What Actually Works
The Evidence and Evaluation team has launched two new requests for proposals to strengthen and build evidence of proven programs, policies, and…
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I know lots of stuff is off the rails, but just got another R&R, so for now, we celebrate 🎉 🎉 🎉
